Memoirs of the life of sir Walter Scott [by J.G. Lockhart].Robert Cadell/John Murray and Whittaker & Company, 1839 |
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الصفحة 82 - Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.
الصفحة 216 - ... landscapes in the sea. It was very distressing yesterday, and brought to my mind the fancies of Bishop Berkeley about an ideal world. There was a vile sense of want of reality in all I did and said.
الصفحة 183 - I went to make a visit, and fairly softened myself, like an old fool, with recalling old stories, till I was fit for nothing but shedding tears and repeating verses for the whole night. This is sad work. The very grave gives up its dead, and time rolls back thirty years to add to my perplexities. I don't care. I begin to grow case-hardened, and, like a stag turning at bay, my naturally good temper grows fierce and dangerous.
الصفحة 322 - A mirthful man he was ; the snows of age Fell, but they did not chill him. Gaiety, Even in life's closing, toueh'd his teeming brain With such wild visions as the setting sun Raises in front of some hoar glacier, Painting the bleak ice with a thousand hues.
الصفحة 251 - tis said, in days of yore ; But something ails it now — the place is curst.
الصفحة 54 - How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board ! It is like the aged man reclining under the shadow of the oak which he has planted. My poor plant has some storms to undergo, but were this expedition conducive to no more than his entrance into life under suitable auspices, I should consider the toil and the expense well bestowed.
الصفحة 10 - Tristram Shandy's vein. Hand me my cap and bells there. So now, I am equipped. I open my raree-show with Ma'am, will you walk in, and fal de ral diddle ? And, sir, will you stalk in, and fal de ral diddle ? And, miss, will you pop in, and fal de ral diddle ? And, master, pray hop in, and fal de ral diddle...
الصفحة 216 - I was strangely haunted by what I would call the sense of preexistence, viz. a confused idea that nothing that passed was said for the first time ; that the same topics had been discussed and the same persons had stated the same opinions on them.
الصفحة 170 - Maclellan of Bomby at the Thrieve Castle ; stabbed the Black Douglas in the town of Stirling ; astonished King James before Roxburgh ; and stifled the Earl of Mar in his bath, in the Canongate. A wild world, my masters, this Scotland of ours must have been. No fear of want of interest; no lassitude in those days for want of work — 4 For treason, d'ye see, Was to them a dish of tea, And murder bread and butter.
الصفحة 333 - I have lost," he writes (4th November) to Cadell, — " my old and faithful servant — my factotum — and am so much shocked that I really wish to be quit of the country and safe in town. I have this day laid him in the grave. This has prevented my answering your letters.